Prince Harry is facing his mistakes from the past and will likely talk about his Nazi uniform controversy in one of his speeches soon. The Duke of Sussex is reportedly going through a journey of self-discovery and will address his previous racially insensitive actions.
Omid Scobie, the author of the Sussex biography Finding Freedom, revealed that the Duke of Sussex is ready to revisit the scandal that happened in 2005, when the royal was pictured wearing a Nazi uniform with a swastika armband. Scobie said that people will hear Prince Harry talk about this "at some point" as he is getting educated on racial matters with his wife, Meghan Markle.
Prince Harry, then 20 years old, drew public anger around the world after he was seen wearing a Nazi uniform at a costume party in a trendy London club. He quickly apologized for the mistake in a statement published in the newspapers.
That same week, his grandmother, the Queen, was set to commemorate the anniversary of the Auschwitz death camp liberation with some survivors and World War II veterans at St. James' Palace. Despite his apology, the Jewish community asked the son of Prince Charles to visit Poland. Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles strongly stated that Prince Harry should see the meaning behind the symbol he "foolishly and brazenly" wore as a costume.
Buckingham Palace was mum on the controversy after Prince Harry apologized. Then Prime Minister Tony Blair's spokesperson, however, said that the royal acknowledged his offense.
Prince Harry's Nazi uniform mistake hovered over him for years. In 2019, an altered photo of the Duke of Sussex with the label "race traitor" made the rounds online. It, also, showed the royal with a gun to his head and a bloodied Swastika in the background.
BBC ran the story of the photo that was, allegedly, shared in a neo-Nazi social media group, leading to the arrest of a couple of far-right activists. However, Prince Harry allegedly complained about the broadcast that aired his image repeatedly in news reports.
Watchdog Ofcom said that the news story included the photo of Prince Harry "to show the abhorrent nature" of the neo-Nazi group's behavior. Ofcom apologized for causing distress and failing to warn Kensington Palace, as well as Prince Harry, about the story before it was aired on television and published on the website.
